Courion Names Brian Connolly Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

Business/Technology Editors

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2003

Proven Industry Veteran Brings Provisioning and Risk Management

Experience Based on Successes in Global Telecommunications Industry

Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of self-service identity management solutions, today announced it has named Brian Connolly as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. In his new role, Connolly will be responsible for managing and expanding Courion's sales organization to meet the rapidly growing demand for the company's enterprise user provisioning and password management solutions.

Connolly has more than 25 years of sales and operations management experience in customer provisioning, risk management, and large-scale systems integration for the global telecommunications industry, including 20 years of experience in executive management positions. Most recently, Connolly was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Lightbridge, Inc., a leading supplier of customer provisioning software and services to the wireless communications industry. At Lightbridge, Connolly built and directed a staff of over 60 professionals, drove revenue from $40 million in 1997 to $176 million in 2001, opened sales offices in Brazil, Malaysia, and the UK, and helped secure strategic partnerships with Verisign and Siebel Systems.

Previously, Connolly was vice president and chief operating officer for a 650-person, $120 million division of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), providing billing, provisioning, network management, and security management software and integration services to the global telecommunications industry. At CSC, Connolly was promoted numerous times, culminating with his having full profit and loss responsibility for the division's three lines of business and operations in North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. Connolly was also a division sales manager for AT&T Information Systems, where he was responsible for the government, education, and health care markets. He holds a MBA from Suffolk University and a BA from the University of Massachusetts.

"Brian Connolly brings a wealth of experience selling in complex environments to IT and lines of business, both in the United States and internationally," said Chris Zannetos, Courion CEO. "He and his teams have shown the ability to build successful, long-term, multi-product relationships with customers. Brian's significant experience selling provisioning and risk management software and services to the telecommunications industry will enable him to hit the ground running with our user provisioning and password management solutions."

Connolly, who joins Courion after the company's most successful quarter, in which 18 new customers and an additional $9 million in financing were secured, expects to continue the positive momentum.

"To be successful in the highly competitive identity management market, your technology and delivery capabilities must be unique and differentiable," said Connolly. "In researching the market and talking with Courion's numerous FORTUNE 500 customers, it became obvious to me that Courion is the clear market and technology leader. Courion is a world-class, enterprise software company, and I'm looking forward to working with the rest of the management team to expand our base of worldwide customers and business partners."

About Courion

Courion Corporation is the leading provider of self-service identity management solutions that help enterprises manage the access rights and credentials of employees, business partners, and customers with more speed, more security, and less cost. Courion's Identity Management Suite, anchored by its AccountCourier(TM) user provisioning and PasswordCourier(R) password management product families, securely automates manual identity management processes by aligning information security policies with business objectives and connecting quickly to existing IT infrastructure for rapid ROI.

Courion's customers include industry leaders such as The Boeing Company, Cummins, Inc., Dell Computer, GE, Raymond James Financial Services, SunTrust Banks, Target Corporation, government institutions such as the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Census Bureau, and large not-for-profit organizations such as Kaiser Permanente. Courion is funded by QuestMark Partners, JMI Equity, and other private investors. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at [phone] or visit www.courion.com.

Courion and PasswordCourier are registered trademarks and AccountCourier is a trademark of Courion Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.